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Book Synopsis The Australian Rugby Companion by : Gordon Bray
Download or read book The Australian Rugby Companion written by Gordon Bray and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to Australian rugby, revised and updated for the 2003 World Cup. Describes facets of the game, the 15-player code, the way rugby is played today, the way it has been played throughout history, major rugby venues in Australia, the laws of the codes, and information on where to discover rare rugby memorabilia. Contributors include Brother Anthony Boyd, Bob Dwyer, George Gregan, Rod Macqueen, Gary Pearse and Spiro Zavos. Foreword by John Eales. Includes profiles and fact sheets on all players in the Wallaby team, colour photos and index. Editor is Chief Rugby Commentator on the Seven network in Sydney and writes for the 'Daily Telegraph'.
Book Synopsis Immortals of Australian Rugby Union by : Gordon Bray
Download or read book Immortals of Australian Rugby Union written by Gordon Bray and published by Gelding Street Press. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover and jacket gift book which names a best of the best 15-strong line-up of Australian rugby union players. Each Immortal player named is profiled in a dedicated chapter with career stats and multiple action images. There is also a group of honourable mentions and an Immortals Wallaby side. Features 100 photographs and key statistics. The Immortals of Australian Rugby Union celebrates the greatest players to wear the green and gold for the Wallabies. It takes the Immortals concept made famous elsewhere in the sporting world and applies it to the 15-playergame. Gordon Bray, the voice of rugby in Australia, chooses his XV Immortals, telling the remarkable stories behind pioneering and modern-day Wallabies.
Book Synopsis The Immortals of Australian Rugby Union by : Gordon Bray
Download or read book The Immortals of Australian Rugby Union written by Gordon Bray and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated profiles of the most legendary Australian rugby union players. Hardcover and jacket gift book which names a best of the best 15-strong line-up of Australian rugby union players. Each Immortal player named is profiled in a dedicated chapter with career stats and multiple action images. There is also a group of honourable mentions and an Immortals Wallaby side. Features 100 photographs and key statistics. The Immortals of Australian Rugby Union celebrates the greatest players to wear the green and gold for the Wallabies. It takes the Immortals concept made famous elsewhere in the sporting world and applies it to the 15-player game. Gordon Bray, the voice of rugby in Australia, chooses his XV Immortals, telling the remarkable stories behind pioneering and modern-day Wallabies.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport by : Wray Vamplew
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport written by Wray Vamplew and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport appears in a revised, updated and greatly expanded new edition. Produced by the Australian Society for Sports History, this is the first authoritative and encyclopedic reference work on all sports played in Australia. It provides a comprehensive overview of the history and character of the innumerable codes that constitute the Australian sporting character. All sports are covered - not just the major ones like cricket, Australian Rules, lawn tennis, and horse-racing. The Companion offers succinct and informative entries on famous sportsmen and women, and on major institutions, competitions and venues. The Companion also offers thematic essays on crucial aspects of the history, culture and professionalization of sport in Australia. For the first time readers have access to biographies of sporting champions from different codes, all of whom rub shoulders in this literary pantheon. For the second edition, the editors have commissionedfour major new thematic essays: Coaching, Disabled Sportsmen and Women, Regionalism, and the Olympic Winter Games. Seven more sports have been added (badminton, bicycle racing, curling, fives, petanque, ring bowls, and surfing), along with 38 additional clubs. The second edition boasts 240 new biographies. One of its major features is a `list of lists', which provides full details about major competitions such as the Stawell Gift, Davis Cup finals, the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, the Sheffield Shield, Brownlow Medallists - to name just a few of the lists contained in this Appendix. Greatly expanded and offering a readable cultural history of Australian sport, the Oxford Companion to Australian Sport is essential reading for sportsmen and women, administrators, journalists and sports followers.
Book Synopsis The Rugby Companion by : Wallace Reyburn
Download or read book The Rugby Companion written by Wallace Reyburn and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Flashpoint by : Derek Charles Catsam
Download or read book Flashpoint written by Derek Charles Catsam and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years ago, a South African rugby tour in the United States became a crucial turning point for the nation’s burgeoning protests against apartheid and a test of American foreign policy. In Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America's Anti-Apartheid Movement, Derek Charles Catsam tells the fascinating story of the Springbok’s 1981 US tour and its impact on the country’s anti-apartheid struggle. The US lagged well behind the rest of the Western world when it came to addressing the vexing question of South Africa’s racial policies, but the rugby tour changed all that. Those who had been a part of the country’s tiny anti-apartheid struggle for decades used the visit from one of white South Africa’s most cherished institutions to mobilize against both apartheid sport and the South African regime more broadly. Protestors met the South African team at airports, chanted outside their hotels, and courted arrests at matches, which ranged from the bizarre to the laughable, with organizers going to incredible lengths to keep their locations secret. In telling the story of how a sport little appreciated in the United States nonetheless became ground zero for the nation’s growing anti-apartheid movement, Flashpoint serves as a poignant reminder that sports and politics have always been closely intertwined.
Book Synopsis Routledge Companion to Sports History by : S. W. Pope
Download or read book Routledge Companion to Sports History written by S. W. Pope and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of sports history is no longer a fledgling area of study. There is a great vitality in the field and it has matured dramatically over the past decade. Reflecting changes to traditional approaches, sport historians need now to engage with contemporary debates about history, to be encouraged to position themselves and their methodologies in relation to current epistemological issues, and to promote the importance of reflecting on the literary or poetic dimensions of producing history. These contemporary developments, along with a wealth of international research from a range of theoretical perspectives, provide the backdrop to the new Routledge Companion to Sports History. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the international field of sports history as it has developed as an academic area of study. Readers are guided through the development of the field across a range of thematic and geographical contexts and are introduced to the latest cutting edge approaches within the field. Including contributions from many of the world’s leading sports historians, the Routledge Companion to Sports History is the most important single volume for researchers and students in, and entering, the sports history field. It is an essential guide to contemporary research themes, to new ways of doing sports history, and to the theoretical and methodological foundations of this most fascinating of subjects.
Download or read book Two Mighty Tribes written by Spiro Zavos and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of highlights and analyses of the encounters between the Australian and New Zealand rugby teams over the past 100 years. Describes great matches, highlights of these encounters and attempts to pick out the best players of the century from both the All Blacks and Wallaby teams. Includes colour photos. Zavos is a rugby columnist for the 'Sydney Morning Herald' whose previous titles include 'The Real Muldoon' and 'Faith of Our Fathers'. Bray is an Australian rugby commentator who has previously authored and edited several books including 'From the Ruck' and 'The Australian Rugby Companion'.
Book Synopsis New Zealand Rugby Companion by : Lorimer Kate
Download or read book New Zealand Rugby Companion written by Lorimer Kate and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Zealand All Blacks are one of the most recognisable and formidable teams on the world sporting stage. They are the record setters, the keepers of tradition, and the icons of the game of Rugby Union. They have been the benchmark for skill and execution ever since the oval shaped ball first arrived on New Zealand's shores, and are a team the rest of the world aspire to beat. They also hold the most victories of any Test nation, and the best win percentage overall, and can proudly stand shoulder to shoulder alongside some of the greatest sporting teams in the world of any code. Much has been written about the All Blacks and their legacy, but in this one book you get the full picture - the Tests, the players, the results and the history - recollecting those memorable moments and marvelling at the exploits of some of world-famous All Blacks. From the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987, when it was still an amateur game, through to their record-breaking exploits in 2016 at the height of professionalism, the All Blacks have enjoyed one of the highest levels of sporting success in the world. But the modern era is not the whole story. The New Zealand Rugby Companion fills in the essential gaps, provides the historic context and completes the total picture for all rugby lovers. Up to including the 2019.
Book Synopsis The State of Origin Companion by : Alan J. Whiticker
Download or read book The State of Origin Companion written by Alan J. Whiticker and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the 40th anniversary of the first State of Origin in 1980, 'The State of Origin Companion' tells the full story of interstate rugby league since the birth of the game in Australia in 1908. Not only are all interstate matches played before 1980 featured, but international matches against New South Wales and Queensland are detailed for the first time. Together with complete representative records for all state players, 'The State of Origin Companion' completes the interstate story.
Book Synopsis Caring in the Community by : Helen Croft
Download or read book Caring in the Community written by Helen Croft and published by Pearson Higher Education AU. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal carers in Australia’s community care environment offer crucial daily support to the frail aged, to those with a disability and to primary carers. Caring in the Community provides a solid, practical introduction to the role and responsibilities for workers caring for clients in their own homes.
Book Synopsis Games Without Frontiers by : John Williams
Download or read book Games Without Frontiers written by John Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the historical appeal of football? How diverse are its players, supporters and institutions throughout the world? What are its various traditions and how are these affected by pressures to modernize?? In what ways does the game help to reinforce or overcome social differences and prejudices? How can we understand football’s subcultures, especially football hooligan ones? The 1994 World Cup Finals in the United States have again demonstrated the conflicts which exist around football over its international future. The multi-media age beckons new audiences for top-level matches, but worries remain that the historical and cultural appeal of football itself may be the real loser. The global game? has a breadth of skills, playing techniques, supporting styles and ruling bodies. These are all subject to local and national traditions of team play and fan display. Modern commercial influences and international cultural links through players and fan styles, are accommodated within the game to an increasing extent. Yet, football’s ability to differentiate remains: at local, regional, national and even continental levels. In some cases the game’s traditions ensure that these differences are becoming as oppositional today as is modern football hooliganism. But, the overall picture is one of a game without frontiers - rich in historical and cultural detail, pluralistic in its traditions and identities. This volume brings together essays by leading academics and researchers writing on world football. Their studies draw on interdisciplinary researches in England, Scotland, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Argentina and Australia. The book will be of interest to students of sports science, cultural studies and social science and to all those who simply enjoy football as the world's greatest sporting passion.
Download or read book Wallaby Gold written by Peter Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the very first game played by an Australian rugby team against a side from England in 1898 to the last Test match of 2002 in November, this extraordinary book tells the complete story of more than 100 years of Australia's involvement in international Test rugby. Superbly designed, printed and bound, with nearly 300 colour and black and white photographs, this fully updated and expanded edition of the only book to cover Austrlia's history in Test rugby is the 'must have' commemorative edition for every fan of the game. This revised and updated edition includes the last four years of tests, ready for the onslaught of the World Cup in October and November this year. Arranged in chronological order, each year includes an introduction with anecdotes drawn from hundreds of original interviews conducted by the author, and is followed by an account of each game played in that Test series, detailing the highs and lows as well as the drama, the characters and the humourous moments from 104 years of the game. Ten of the greatest living rugby captains have written individual introductions to the book, and the most thorough statistical section ever published for the game provides every fact and figure any rugby buff could ever want. Throughout the book are also hundreds of rare and iconic photographs never seen before. Peter Jenkins is a senior sportswriter for the Daily Telegraph, having started with the newspaper in 1984 then moving to The Australian for 10 years from 1991. A winner of several awards, including the 1998 and 1999 Print Media Prizes for his coverage of the Australian Rugby Union Test seasons, Peter has been writing about the Wallabies since 1985 and has followed them on almost 30 overseas assignments. He has attended all four World Cups, been a rugby union commentator with Sydney radio station 2UE since 1986 and covered the Atlanta and Sydney Olympics and the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpour for the News Limited group. Peter has also been the host of the Fox Sports pay-TV program, Main Game.
Book Synopsis The IMMORTALS OF AUSTRALIAN RUGBY LEAGUE by : Liam Hauser
Download or read book The IMMORTALS OF AUSTRALIAN RUGBY LEAGUE written by Liam Hauser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gutsy guide for the Teen Witch takes them on a journey of self-discovery - to dig deep and learn about all the magick that is inside of them, and then shine that magick into the world. At night, Teen Witches are out under the starry sky, turning on to Magick; they meet after school IRL … and Zoom in with other magick youth around the world, for full moon rituals. They cast spells and divine rituals, alone, to help them pass tests, attract boyfriends or girlfriends, get along with their parents, and find out what their life's true calling is. What does it take to be a real witch in this brave new world? With all the tools, spells, sacred days and tips for what to do in love and life, this book is a must-have for the young person who wants to evolve into the most empowered version of themselves in a brave, new Magickal life!
Download or read book Dod's Parliamentary Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Inside the Wallabies by : Greg Growden
Download or read book Inside the Wallabies written by Greg Growden and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2010 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the real story of the Wallabies from their first games in 1908 to today. It is about the players, the coaches, the politics and the games. It is about the soaring highs of World Cup success and the years when they truly deserved the moniker of Woeful Wallabies. It is about going on Tour, about enmities and friendships, about moments of national elation and player shame. As fast paced as a Mark Ella backline play, as solid as Phil Kearns' front row and as controversial as a Robbie Deans selection, Inside the Wallabies is a fascinating, passionate and insightful history of the world of the Australian Rugby Union.
Book Synopsis The A to Z of Australia by : James C. Docherty
Download or read book The A to Z of Australia written by James C. Docherty and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last continent to be claimed by Europeans, Australia began to be settled by the British in 1788 in the form of a jail for its convicts. While British culture has had the largest influence on the country and its presence can be seen everywhere, the British were not Australia's original populace. The first inhabitants of Australia, the Aborigines, are believed to have migrated from Southeast Asia into northern Australia as early as 60,000 years ago. This distinctive blend of vastly different cultures contributed to the ease with which Australia has become one of the world's most successful immigrant nations. The A to Z of Australia relates the history of this unique and beautiful land, which is home to an amazing range of flora and fauna, a climate that ranges from tropical forests to arid deserts, and the largest single collection of coral reefs and islands in the world. Through a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and cross-referenced dictionary entries on some of the more significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets, author James Docherty provides a much needed single volume reference on Australia, from its most unpromising of beginnings as a British jail to the liberal, tolerant, democracy it is today.
